This Week's The Buzz Online Spotlight
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Pastoral Counseling Services in Manchester announced its Good Samaritan Award honorees: business and industry, Richard Rawlings, retired; education, Jeanine Tousignant, former CEO at Manchester Community Music School in Manchester; media and the arts, Alan Kaplan, director at Manchester Community Theatre Players & Second Stage Professional Company in Manchester; medicine and healing, Susan Higgins, volunteer at UpReach Therapeutic Riding Center, Inc. in Goffstown; religion, Dawn Berry, pastor at Brookside Congregational Church in Manchester; and rising star, Jodi Harper, director of literacy and BRING IT!!! community collaboration at Granite United Way in Manchester.
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The Able Ebenezer Brewing Company opened a brewery and tasting room in Merrimack.
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@Website Publicity in Peterborough hired Erik Cargo as its chief digital officer. Previously, Cargo was director of internet marketing for Trunity in Portsmouth.
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The Women's Fund of NH in Concord awarded $30,000 to the NH Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence in Concord to help fund the coalition's open doors to safety program.
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Retirement Alliance, Inc. in Manchester hired Andy Ives, former retirement services district manager at ADP in N.J., as a regional pension consultant.
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The NH Women's Bar Association in Manchester elected Sandra Kenney to its board of directors. Kenney is an attorney with Upton & Hatfield, LLP in Manchester.
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The NH Charitable Foundation in Concord awarded $628,939 to several nonprofit medical centers and nonprofit organizations: Goodwin Community Health in Somersworth, $50,000; Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Lebanon, $49,763; Mid-State Health Center in Plymouth, $44,263; New Futures in Concord, $70,000; NH Center for Excellence in Substance Use Prevention and Treatment in Bow, $318,575; and Valley Regional Hospital in Claremont, $50,000; Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover.
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The Nackey S. Loeb School Communications in Manchester elected Cathleen Schmidt, executive director and CEO of McLane Law Firm in Manchester, to its board of trustees.
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The Provident Bank in Mass. donated $250,000 to Southern District YMCA in Exeter to support the building of a new facility.
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The American Automobile Association Northern New England in Maine donated $15,000 to the Community Colleges of NH Foundation in Concord to help provide scholarships to students studying automotive technology.
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EVR Advertising in Manchester received two awards for its billboard campaigns for St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua. It received a Communicator Award for the cancer center campaign and a Lamplighter Award for the cardiovascular campaign.
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UNH in Durham hired Michael Ettlinger, a senior director at Pew Charitable Trusts in D.C., as the founding director of its Carsey School of Public Policy.
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The NH Departments of Environmental Services and Health and Human Services in Concord hired a team from Dartmouth College in Hanover to look into improving well water safety in the state.